After learning that sexually explicit porn could be accessed by children on the popular Kindle app, Apple has raised concerns with Amazon calling on the company to strengthen its content moderation.
The warnings were sparked by questions posed by Reuters to spokespeople at the three companies about users’ ability, via the Kindle app, to access and view online volumes of photographs of naked women, with titles such as “75 hot fully nude photos of a young blonde” and “Real Erotica: Amateur Naked Girls – Vol. 4″. Some appeared to show women and men engaging in sexual acts.
Reuters learned of the issue when two families told Reuters their pre-teen sons downloaded the explicit material via Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited e-book subscription service and viewed the full-color photographs on the Kindle iPhone app. Pornography also is available through Amazon’s Kindle online store and viewable on versions of the Kindle app.
The parents, who declined to be named, told Reuters they were initially attracted to the $10-per-month service because it offered access to age-appropriate book series that would otherwise be expensive to purchase and were not available on Amazon’s Kids+ subscription service.
The adult material at issue is primarily self-published through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing arm. Authors can self-publish their books nearly instantaneously through Amazon and may designate the content as available for the Kindle Unlimited service… After Reuters alerted Apple of the availability of pornography in the Kindle app, Amazon earlier this month changed the age rating in the app store to 12 years or older from 4 years or older.
There are no parental controls available for the Kindle Unlimited service.
MacDailyNews Take: Sounds like the Kindle Unlimited service should offer parental controls.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
The world is a big kindergarten. Not.
Comon Apple its 2023 when adult entertainment (drag queens) is made available for kids in schools. Not yet female strippers, but as long you are a guy you are welcome to do that lap dance to toddlers. I dont get it why Apple is So close minded, against progress and overly conservative? While it should join the liberal movement.
Apple IS a liberal company. This issue is about protecting young impressionable minds from assaults on DECENCY and DECORUM until children grow up to make their own choices. Not some fashionable liberal indulgence that comes without boundaries and codes of ethics…
Amazon has shipped sex toys to customers. I’m sure this is against their policy as well.